Professor

Office:  1722 HW (Hunter West Building, S.E. corner of Lexington Ave. & 68th St.)
Phone:  212-772-5665
Email:  rkarapin@panix.com

Office Hours:  on leave during the 2009-2010 academic year.

• Environmental Policy and Politics
• American Politics
• Comparative Politics
• Germany
• Western Europe
• Social and Political Movements
• Democracy

• PLSC 110:  American Government: A Historical Introduction
• PLSC 117:  Introduction to Comparative Politics
• PLSC 220:  Globalization and Opposition Movements
• PLSC 254:  Government and Politics in Western Europe
• PLSC 315:  Social and Economic Policies in Western Europe and the United States

Education:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993
B.A. and M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1983

• Protest Politics in Germany:  Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960's. University Park, Pa.:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007.  Paperback edition, 2009.  Winner of the 2008 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book Published in Collective Behavior and Social Movements, sponsored by the American Sociological Association.
• "Protest and Reform in Asylum Policy:  Citizen Initiatives Versus Asylum Seekers in German Municipalities, 1989-1994, " German Politics and Society 21 (Summer 2003), pp. 1-45.
• "Far-Right Parties and the Construction of Immigration Issues in Germany," in Martin Schain, Aristide Zolberg, and Patrick Hossay, eds., Shadows Over Europe: The Development and Impact of the Extreme Right in Western Europe. New York: Palgrave, 2002, pp. 187-219.
• "Un Phenomene Complexe," Problemes Politiques et Sociaux 849 (22 December 2000), pp. 37-42.
• "Major Anti-Minority Riots and National Legislative Campaigns against Immigrants in Britain and Germany," in Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, eds., Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics:  European Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 312-47.
• "The Politics of Immigration Control in Britain and Germany: Subnational Politicians and Social Movements, "Comparative Politics 31 (July 1999), pp.423-44.
• "Explaining Far-Right Electoral Successes in Germany:  The Politicization of Immigration-Related Issues," German Politics and Society 16 (Fall 1998), pp. 24-61.
• "Radical-Right and Neo-Fascist Political Parties in Western Europe," Comparative Politics 30 (January 1998), pp. 213-34.